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...fourth quarter touchdowns by Cornell made the final score respectable, but the Big Red obviously suffered from a porous secondary and inability to establish its running game early...

Author: By Andy C. Poon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cornell's Loss at Brown Locks Five Ivy Teams in Tie for First | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

Splithoff may well have a field day against the Crimson's porous secondary, which has found a home on opposing teams' highlight films. Harvard's pass defense ranks dead last in the country, giving up 310 yards per game...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ailing Football Needs Win at Princeton to Break Ivy Slide | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...with 37 seconds on the clock, the Crimson could have run anything from its playbook--a fade to Morris, challenging Cornell's seemingly porous secondary with a slant underneath or even a hand-off to Leiszler or Palazzo...

Author: By Andy C. Poon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Questionable Call Produces Agonizing Ending | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

...Building this bridge to corporate control is a flawed set of campaign finance laws so porous corporations don't even have to do anything illegal to gain undue influence. This whole edifice, built upon a shoddy Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo equating money with speech, has given rise to a system in which the only speech that matters is money...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: From Democracy to Corporacy | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

...real damage from the Lee case isn't the leaks from porous national labs or the mystery of secrets that got away. Instead, the case makes it harder to believe that in America at least, the government will always ensure that the punishment fits the crime. After last week, it's almost reasonable to ask whether federal agents cut corners on all their cases or just the ones involving Chinese Americans and national security. "Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted," says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St. John's University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Way Home | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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